The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

They learned about love from a distance. This is the truest love of all, when two people must wait and build up great ideas about each other until the passion becomes so unbearable and deeply rooted that they must have each other. That is how love becomes the most desirable and lasting.

The years between 1965 and 1978 were the times of the greatest democratic and modern reforms in the history of Afghanistan.

But Islam teaches that a man must not touch a woman without her consent. Mina didn’t consent to be a wife. None of this made any sense to me, the more I thought about it.